>>> I'd actually prefer it to look like Windows NT/2000/"Classic". That has been, and forever will be, my preferred "working GUI". Right now my Cinnamon setup more or less looks just like it. It's how I make MATE and XFCE look as well. >>>

Please, please tell the world how you managed to overcome the overlay scrollbars, the fading scrollbars, the persistent notification clouds on the desktop, the non-menu and other Cinnamon amenities. I failed.

The Germans are ahead in the curve. They have e-bikes and pedelecs. Pedelecs do have a battery which is only engaged and helpful if you push yourself on the pedals. Pedelecs wastly outnumber e-bikes. Max. speed 25 kmph is rarely attained.

jjohn_h writes: Nigerian lawyer Rickey Tarfa knows a trick or two. He kept clients in his car for hours impeding arrest. He tried to impress a lower court with a call from his mobile to a higher court judge. Now he is in the dock himself and shows up with just 90 (ninety) defendants.
Are there no innovative lawyers in America and Europe? Do we have to learn from Nigeria?

Hello Mark, this is the chance you were not waiting for. Give up on Apple as a model; realize that one single interface for phones and PCs is an absurdity; accept that Windows is universal; move Ubuntu in that direction and get a sizeable chunk of the desktop market.